Source (Noun)
Meaning 1
A document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival".
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Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
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Meaning 3
A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 4
The place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root".
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 5
Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 6
A person who supplies information.
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 7
Someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints".
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 8
(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 9
A facility where something is available.
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.